The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-30
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

SENATE-Majority adverse and minority
favorable reports were submitted on Glass.
cocks bill ameadmg the libel law.
joint resolution submitting n new judi.
cisry article TO vote of the people passed.
Senate joint resolution to submit amend.
mnt TO section 4, article @, of the constitu-
ton, so as to require the legislature to pro-
, ide for the registration of voters in cities
and towns of over 10000 population.
Amended by Pope to authorize instead
lie registration in any county where advis-
able Adopted and resolution passed.
The senate concurred in house amend
mcnts TO senate bill authorizing incorpor-
alton of companies to build docks and open
deep water channels.
House bill to create an agricultural aud
labor bureau in the department of insllr-
ance, statistics and history, on second read
ing passed under suspension OF the rules.
House bll providing that records OF
deeds, mortgages, etc., of lands in an UNI
organized county the clerks Office of the
county TO which the unorganized county Is
attached for judicial purposes shall, when
the irst-named county is organized, be
transferred TO the county clerks office OF
the same without cost, passed.
House bill amending public school laws
passed.
House bill creating counties of VIII Will
~ ha "a
committee substituted for Sutton the name
of Prentiss, but the senate rejected the
amendment.
Burnev moved to substitute the name Of
Schleicher ior WIN Wilson. Adopted, and
the bill passed.
HoUsE-Senate bill authorizing charter
ing OF private corporations for operating
deep water channels on the gull coast, with
power to issue bonds to borrow money for
such purposes, was passed.
baylor introduced bill to divide the
western portion of Tom Green county into
five new counties, TO be named Ector, Up
ton, Grain, Ward and Loving. 1t repeats
the act recently passed creating SIX coun-
llts bub VI llt ltlillOdNf ~ Nv
veloped that there was not sufficient area
for the six counties.
Moore. of Travis, called up the motion to
reconsider the vote OF Saturday by which
the bill TO authorize the holders and owners
of patents issued to lands id Greer county
and other reservations 70 surrender their
patents for cancellation and receive new
certificates.
johnson Offered an amendment, which
was adopted, providing that said certif-
Gates shall not be located upon any lands
heretofore forfeited or that may hereafter
be forfeited to the State by any railroad
company, nor any Of the lands tnat are or
may be reserved from loca ion, and that
said patents be returned to the land com
m ssioner for cancellation by Jan. l, 1888,
and 10 new certificates shall be issued
after that time. The bill was then again
passed.
Senate bill to amend the law relative TO
allowances for support OF widows and min
or children from the estates of decedents
passed.
Senate bill to authorize counties, cities
and towns to compromise and adjust GER
tain bosded Indebtedness aud to provide
for the levy and collection OF taxes to pay
tile interest and sinking fund, passed.
House bill defining aud Furnishing the Of
Tense OF employing and decOyiug minors
prom parents or guardians passed.
House bin to provide for the establish
ment Of deaf, dumb and blind asylum for
red persons. and 70 pSc,Sds Cor their